So Apple finally announced it’s latest gadget – the iPad. Possibly the most-eagerly awaited tablet since Moses was on the scene (© All today’s newspapers), the iPad is – in layman’s terms – an VERY BIG iPhone… but without the phone bit.
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Party like it’s 1993
Monday, January 25th, 2010
Ever thought that, well, you can do too much with your PC or Mac? It’s just *too* powerful.
Do you long for a simpler time when Minesweeper was the cutting-edge of games and overlapping program windows were a revelation?
You need the Windows 3.11 emulator :-)
Why people spend hours doing these things is beyond us sometimes… but we’re glad they do.
And all done in javascript… not even a whiff of Flash. Good work fella.
Interesting… but I don’t see Clapton playing one
Monday, January 18th, 2010
The jury’s still out as to whether we want one… or will stick with the “boring old strings” of our usual guitars.
Retro web sites
Monday, December 28th, 2009
Forgot about this until I stumbled upon it again today: what would the Apple web site have looked like in 1983.
Up Up and Away…
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
Our glorious leader (a title he wants us to adopt but are so far refusing to) Ross isn’t a big fan of heights – but, like all 30-something men there’s a 12 year old boy inside him that goes ga-ga over anything Star Wars.
“How cool is that!” he exclaimed when he saw this: a Darth Vader hot-air balloon at a festival in Leon, Mexico.
With thanks to My Modern Met for the heads-up.
Get the hair right man!
Saturday, November 7th, 2009
At Co-Op Towers we’re big fans of Guitar Hero – strapping on our plastic guitars and strutting our stuff. Even the actual guitarists in the team enjoy pretending to be their favourite, er, guitar heroes.
So we’re awaiting the next installment – LEGO Rock Band – with bated breath.
The Inquisitr is reporting that Brian May of Queen made one demand of his LEGO character – his famous hair had to be right. He said: “I think my LEGO character is wonderful. I want one. We had discussions about the hair, there were a few emails. They had to negotiate to use my likeness, but it’s a nice thing.”
Is it just us who think being re-created in (virtual) LEGO is possibly the single coolest thing in the world?
The game is released in the UK on November 27th. Maybe we’ll have tired of The Beatles: Rock Band by then?
Salivation overload
Saturday, October 31st, 2009
New iMac launched… pockets being turned out and sofas investigated for any loose change.
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